Thursday, 19 August 2010

Thaileaks

Resurrecting Wikileaks in Thailand
For unknown reasons the Thai Government has closed access to the Wikileaks website. This means that Thai internauts and webizens are not allowed to take part in the current netbased movement of freedom. This is not acceptable. Therefore we make all Thai-related content from the Wikileaks website available for direct download.
You may access the entire Wikileaks site by browsing to wiki.thaileaks.info or use secure connection (you need to accept the certificate) on the https-enabled version.
This is sensitive material, all quoted from Wikileaks. Please note - This is not about disrespecting the Thai State or the Royal family. It is about making a statement for the freedom of information.
No offense, this is about the internets!

Magnet links to Wikileaks material
(Magnet links work with most new bittorrent clients, for example Vuze, Transmission.). Please help seeding these files with your clients, even if you are outside of Thailand. Save the links on your computer. Even if this page gets blocked, magnet links can be sent in e-mails, Instant messages, even printed on paper, in order to keep information flowing.

How to bypass the blocking filter of Thailand permanently
In order to avoid the oppressive blocking filter, there are several methods that you may use. Here are a few examples and links:

To use ssh proxies and I2P darknet there are video instructions made by Telecomix here.
You may use a free VPN service such as AIR VPN.
Onion routing software such as Tor will allow you to bypass the firewall.

This is a service provided by the WikiCong. We do not approve of blocking the free flow of information. Join us! Join Telecomix! And Support Wikileaks! Please copy all of this page and set it up on several more servers as we are likely to be blocked very soon!

Overdose Awareness Day - August 31st 2010

...a day to acknowledge individual loss and family grief for people who have suffered overdose.

Tuesday August 31st 2010

We are inviting you to participate in Overdose Awareness Day 2010. This year, on the 31st August 2010, we will be remembering those who have died from having suffered overdose as well as those who live with permanent injuries from overdose. The silver badge, which signifies the profound loss of someone cherished, will be available for anyone to wear, whether they wish to show their understanding or to offer condolences to those bearing the burden of grief, or, indeed, to signify their own grief. The badge is a symbol which puts different views and presumptions aside to commemorate the complexity of life and to remember the joy which was given by those who have been lost.

Overdose Awareness Day has a number of aims:

It hopes to lay bare the stigma associated with drug use.
To include overdoses that are heroin related, but also overdoses from alcohol, pills and other drugs. The inclusion of all drugs is important and more reflective of the reality of overdose, allowing us to speak more broadly about the issues.
To provide an opportunity for people to publicly mourn for loved ones, some for the first time, without feeling guilt or shame.
To include the greatest number of people in Overdose Awareness Day events, and as such, encourages non-denominational involvement.
To give community members information about the issue of overdose.
To send a strong message to current and former drug users that they are valued.
To stimulate discussion about overdose prevention and drug policy.
To provide basic information on the range of support services that exist in the local community.
To remind the drug user to be careful.

It is envisaged that after an agency or individuals have obtained the silver badges and other information from The Salvation Army Crisis Services, they will be handed out free to people to maximise the spread of the message.
If you are interested in organising an event your local council, or municipal body, may be able to offer support or co-ordination for you.

This year The Salvation Army would like to encourage people to post a tribute to someone lost from an overdose on our website. Tributes will be posted on the web site from the beginning of August 2010. The website will also offer space for particulars of events that are being conducted on the day. Details relating to tributes and community events can be forwarded to us via facsimile on (03) 9536 7778 or via email at access.health@aus.salvationarmy.org

Click on the following links to access the following material:

» Information Sheet

» Materials Order Form

» Local Event Poster A4

» Local Event Poster A3

» Counselling/Support Services

» Community Activity Tips Sheet

» Launch Invitation City of Port Phillip

» Event Reporting Sheet

» Tribute Lodgement Sheet

For further information please do not hesitate to contact either myself on (+61 3) 9536 7703 or 0413 427 144 or Linda Connor on (+61 3) 9536 7792 or forward inquiries via email to access.health@aus.salvationarmy.org or facsimile (+61 3) 9536 7778

Kind regards,

Sally Finn
Founder
Overdose Awareness Day

@'Salvation Army'
Albert Park Labor MP Martin Foley said in today's 'Age' newspaper that he saw "your stereotypical sex workers and homeless junkies, but also tradies, people in suits, partygoers and healthy looking sporty types" visiting the St Kilda Needle Exchange recently.
Remember -

It could be your father, your daughter or your loved one...

It could be you...
or me.

DrSamuelJohnson Ground Zero Mosque (n.) disputatious Mussulman Chapel that has the Temerity to be built close to the Mid-Term HUSTINGS 3 minutes ago via web

♪♫ Megaphone Ou la Mort - Lutter

Thanx guys!!!

Really like this one!

Google's domination of the world and loss of mojo 谷歌征服世界

Google and the Search for the Future

The Web icon's CEO on the mobile computing revolution, the future of newspapers, and privacy in the digital age.

@ Wall Street Journal

NME: 50 Best New Bands Of 2010

Wikileaks 1 VS Pentagon 0

New Media Days

The Pentagon is walking back initial denials that it tried to contact WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, in recent days to discuss still-unreleased secret files from the Afghanistan war. And new details divulged by defense officials suggest their middleman for contacting the website was an obscure lawyer based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Earlier today, Assange told reporters that he'd "received contact" from the military and he'd "welcome their engagement," adding: "It is always positive for parties to talk to each other." But according to Newsweek:

...spokesmen for both the US Army and the Office of the Secretary of Defense denied that any such contacts had occurred. The office of the Army's general counsel, the military service's chief lawyer, has had "no contact with Julian Assange or any representative of WikiLeaks," said Col. Thomas Collins, an Army spokeman.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman went on to say that there was no "direct contact with WikiLeaks," and the DOD's only avenue of communicating with the site was "via the media."

That now appears to be untrue. In discussions with reporters later Wednesday at the Pentagon, Whitman clarified the military's position. According to Stars & Stripes DC bureau reporter Kevin Baron: "DOD just released a letter sent on Monday to an indivudual they 'came across' who was 'purporting' to be an atty for WikiLeaks." Whitman told the assembled reporters that the DOD had scheduled a phone conversation at 10 a.m. on Sunday, "but the atty did not show."

That attorney, who was to have spoken with the Pentagon's general counsel (as Assange had claimed earlier), was Timothy J. Matusheski of Hattiesburg, whose firm owns the website MississippiWhistleblower.com. Matusheski didn't return calls from Mother Jones requesting a comment on Wednesday, but a search of public records does show that he filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the Justice Department as a representative of WikiLeaks (PDF) on March 10, 2009. The request description, which was incomplete on the public register, appears to have been for "Any comunications [sic] Ed Gillespie, White House Counsel to President George W. Bush from June 27, 2007 to Jan. 20, 2009 would have had with the Justice Department on the subject of restoring diplomatic..." The description was cut off at that point.

In further remarks, Whitman maintained that the Pentagon still had no "direct contact" with WikiLeaks, and the department "will not negotiate some 'minimized' or 'sanitized' version of a release by WikiLeaks." Still, according to Baron, the DOD refused to discuss "if investigators talked to this guy," meaning Matusheski, and "also would not explain how the Pentagon 'came across" this man."

Whether or not Matusheski or the Pentagon clarify their links to reporters, today's developments appear to vindicate Assange's most recent claims about hearing from the DOD general counsel. If the Pentagon-WikiLeaks rivalry is a battle for credibility, the upstart website appears to have won the day, at least.

Adam Weinstein @'Mother Jones'

THE LETTER

Jay Rosen in Oz: Horse-Race Journalism an “International Phenom”

Jimmy & Bill

Rock Magic

Jet black leather machine: the wild wild world of Vince Taylor

Via 'Dangerous Minds'

Last Palestinian linked to 1972 Munich massacre dies

Amin al-Hindi listens to an Israeli soldier at the Netzarim crossing with Gaza (11 January 2001)

Amin al-Hindi disappeared from public life for 22 years following the Munich massacre

A funeral has been held for a Palestinian said to have been involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre in which 11 Israeli athletes died.

The ceremony for Amin al-Hindi was held in Ramallah, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and senior Palestinian leaders present. He was buried in Gaza.

Mr Hindi, who died aged 70 in Jordan on Tuesday, led the General Intelligence Service under the late Yasser Arafat.

In the 1970s, he was a security officer in the PLO's ruling Fatah movement.

He is alleged to have then also been a member of Black September, a militant offshoot of Fatah behind the Munich attacks.

Two Israelis were killed by the group at the athletes' village, and nine more died in a botched rescue attempt by the German police. A German policeman and five Palestinian gunmen were also killed.

Peace talks

The Palestinian envoy to Jordan, Ata Khairy, said Mr Hindi died of cancer of the liver and pancreas at the King Hussein Medical Centre in Amman.

Mahmoud Abbas attends the funeral of Amin al-Hindi in Ramallah (18 August 2010)

Mahmoud Abbas was among the Palestinian leaders who attended the funeral

He had slipped into a coma after undergoing surgery last week, Mr Khairy added.

With the death of Mr Hindi, there are not thought to be any more Palestinians linked to the Munich massacre still alive.

He disappeared for 22 years following the attacks, before emerging as the commander of the General Intelligence. He also served as an adviser to the Palestinian delegation during peace talks with Israel in the 1990s.

Last month, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Munich massacre, Mohammed Oudeh - who led Black September under his guerrilla name, Abu Daoud - died in Damascus at the age of 73.

Following the attack, Israel assassinated a number of Palestinians whom it believed were involved. Oudeh survived one attempt to kill him.

@'BBC'

David Toop & Max Eastley - New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments

LP released on Eno's Obscure label 1975

Max Eastley: Hydrophone, Metallophone, Centriphone, Aerophone
David Toop: voice, Prepared Electric Guitar, Bowed Chordophone, flute, water
Frank Perry: percussion
Paul Burwell: Bass Drums, Lorry Hub, String Fiddle
Brian Eno: Prepared Bass Guitar, vocals
Hugh Davies: grill harp
Chris Munro: vocals
Phil Jones: vocals
In 1974, David Toop published a book titled 'New/Rediscovered Instruments', a survey of self-build instruments in the UK, including articles on the likes of Hugh Davies, Paul Burwell, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, David Toop and Max Eastley. From 1972, he ran a BBC radio show co-hosted with Eastley, mixing ethnic music with home made field recordings, a novelty at the time (information above from Toop's book Ocean Of Sound, 1995). 'The Divination Of The Bowhead Whale' is structured by Frank Perry's sparse gong reverberations, the ensemble resuming playing only after the end of a specific gong strike. Perry played percussion on the legendary 1973 Ovary Lodge LP with Keith Tippet. The track also embarks Hugh Davies' grill harp and a bowed guitar. The music sounds like a field recording from a zen garden ceremony. Toop's opening and closing tracks explore the fragility of his hushed falsetto, be it backed by sparse instruments on 'The Chairs Story', or acappela with a few chorus interjections from Eno, Munro and Jones on the finale. Using nature and natural elements as musical source and/or instruments is one of Max Eastley's most striking skills. His self-build hydrophone, for instance, produces a striking banshee-like whining sound, complete with the river stream and wind recording. The comparison with Henry Cowell's 'The Banshee' (1925) and 'The Aeolian Harp' (1923) is interesting (listen here). Besides, there's something gothic and unsettling in the sounds here, not unlike some Walter Scott ghost story. The Elastic Aerophone is a wind-propelled instrument similar to the one featured in the gorgeous video below. The whole LP is quite unique and hard to categorize.

Download @'UbuWeb'

Finger on the pulse department!

RIAA: mandatory FM radio in cell phones is the future

exilestreet@Dirk57 The alcohol figure in this story makes NO sense http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-10997721

Dirk57

Sure doesn't. Must be overdose only. RT @exilestreet: @Dirk57 alcohol figure in this story makes NO sense http://tinyurl.com/2bk6qru

SHM5

@Dirk57 @exilestreet @Dirk57 all the figures reflect the main drug contributing to death, most if not all are poly-drug use.

SHM5

@Dirk57 @exilestreet @Dirk57 usually a mix of 2 or more of heroin, benzo, alcohol & methadone.

Dirk57

The fatal mix-hard to pick the culprit. RT @SHM5: @Dirk57 @exilestreet usually a mix of 2 or more of heroin, benzo, alcohol & methadone.

SHM5 @Dirk57 @exilestreet the cause of death in the Scottish DRD reports are from the coroner's toxicology etc but still hard to tell.

Wyclef Jean in hiding after Haiti death threat

Bloody hell!!!

Jeeeesus!!

Churchgoers are outraged over a crucifix in a Catholic church they say shows Jesus with exposed genitalia.
Janet Jaime is the artist who designed the crucifix hanging in St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. She was unavailable for comment, but her husband said critics are misinterpreting a common religious icon.
“This isn't just a subjective drawing. This is a historical icon of the church,” said Reggie Jaime, husband of Janet Jaime, an Oklahoma City iconographer commissioned by the church to design the crucifix. “I can't help what you see in things, or she sees in things, or anyone.”
(tulsaworld 4/14/2010)

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

REpost: The Grateful Dead with David Murray live at Madison Square Garden 22nd September 1993

Following on from David Murray's version of 'Dark Star' yesterday.

David Murray live with the Grateful Dead in 1993
HERE

Tracks are: 'Estimated Prophet - Dark Star - Drums & Space'

What can I say about this?

Well by this time Jerry Garcia was just mostly noodling (and nodding) and that had an obvious adverse effect on the rest of the band.

Murray's Ayler like sax obviously works better on these more free-form Dead workouts but I would have loved to have heard him play with them 20 years earlier.

Erykah Badu fined for nude video shoot

Grinderman - Super Heathen Child (with Robert Fripp)

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JPBarlow If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land? - Ken Kesey half a minute ago via Twittelator from Mill Valley, CA

♪♫ Big Youth - S.90 Skank

Big Youth - S.90 Skank/Augustus Pablo - Fat Baby

Get it

HERE

Thailand blocking WikiLeaks

File photo shows Thais using an internet cafe in Bangkok. Thai authorities have used their emergency powers to block domestic access to the WikiLeaks whistleblower website on security grounds, a government official said Wednesday.

Thai authorities have used their emergency powers to block domestic access to the WikiLeaks whistleblower website on security grounds, a government official said Wednesday.

The order came from the government unit set up to oversee the response to political unrest that rocked the nation's capital earlier this year, a spokeswoman for the Information and Communication Technology Ministry said.

"Access to this website has been temporarily suspended under the 2005 emergency decree," she said.

Thailand has removed tens of thousands of web pages from the Internet in recent years, mainly for insulting the monarchy, a serious crime punishable by up to 15 years in jail.

A special cyber crime agency has also been set up to stamp out online criticism of the royal family.

Emergency rule, enshrined in Thai law since 2005, was imposed across many parts of Thailand during two months of anti-government protests in Bangkok from mid-March that left 91 people dead, ending with a bloody army crackdown.

Authorities have used the decree, which remains in place in seven out of Thailand's 76 provinces including Bangkok, to arrest hundreds of suspects and silence anti-government media.

Wikileaks has been the focus of international attention in recent weeks after it released thousands of military documents on the conflict in Afghanistan.

These included claims of meetings between Pakistani spies and the Taliban and that civilian deaths caused by international forces were covered up.

They also included the names of some Afghan informants -- prompting US military claims that the leaks endangered lives.

@'Bangkok Post'

James Blackshaw

James Blackshaw’s on a mighty roll. He’s released a number of fine albums, but grab 2007’s The Cloud of Unknowing (especially), 2008’s piano-threaded Litany Of Echoes, and last year’s piano-and-string (and etc.) augmented The Glass Bead Game to hear the London guitar virtuoso/multi-instrumentalist at his best. Upping the ante, Blackshaw’s forthcoming eighth studio album All Is Falling, his second for Michael Gira’s Young God, is a swirling 45-minute song cycle that includes his first use of electric 12-string along with a heady mix of glockenspiel, piano, percussion, violin, counting voices, flute, alto saxophone, cello, etc. It’s his most orchestral work to date. It’s also best enjoyed in one full sitting, but things come to a head in “Part 7,” so you might as well dip your toe in during a climax (there are many). This is a 7-minute edit of the full 12-minute section.

James Blackshaw – All Is Falling (Part 7 Edit)
(Right click/save as)

Even if his press photos haven’t been updated, the label’s explanation of the shift from acoustic to electric, Dylan fans:The seeds of this project were sown in the past few years while James was serving as guest guitarist with a friend’s group on tour. This was the first time he’d played electric guitar in nearly a decade. Blackshaw got unexpected pleasure and inspiration from the sheer volume involved, the way the different old valve amps he’d rent for each show would perform, and having to be more pro-active in his fretting; he noted that while a 12-string acoustic guitar “sings” or “plays itself,” that an electric guitar needs a lot more coaxing. James became curious as to how a 12-string electric guitar might sound in his own work and bought an Italia Rimini and a little Fender Superchamp. The slimmer neck and the lighter string tension allowing him to play faster and to reach finger positions he’d previously found awkward. At the same time, James acquired a home-recording set up which allowed him to experiment with the arrangements for other instruments, and this became integral to how he wrote the piece with guitar taking a smaller role in the overall picture as a result. Both factors had a huge impact on the new music he was composing as well as the influence of post-No Wave maximalist guitar composers Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham.

All Is Falling is out 8/24 via Young God. Speaking of uncompromising songwriters, the label’s also releasing the new James Jackson Toth/Wooden Wand album Death Seat in October. Gira produced it.

Brandon @'Stereogum'

Aswad - Dub Fire

Thanx to Holy Warbles!

MRI scanners inspire brainwave music

A trio of artists have taken the output of MRI brain scanners as the inspiration for a series of pieces that will be exhibited in Suffolk in September, 2010. Designer Matthias Gmachl, Warp Records composer Mira Calix and electronic musician Anna Meredith have created works for an exhibition called Brainwaves that mashes up science, visual art and sound.

Gmachl is part of design studio Loop.ph, and has created an interactive sculpture that responds visually to sound. He's honed in on the electrical noises made by the machine, and the piece considers how those sounds connect to noises within the brain itself.

Calix, on the other hand, examines the emotional experience of having your brain scanned. She has put together a piece with the help of Meredith and a string quartet which uses the sounds emitted by the scanner as a basis for music. Meredith has also composed a new work of her own which will be performed.

All three have been assisted by cognitive neuroscientist Prof. Vincent Walsh, who is the official Scientist in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music. He'll be mentoring the artists and offering a scientific perspective on the work, giving a talk before each concert starts on the background of the MRI.

Another source of inspiration will be scans of different classical musicians playing through different musical scores in their mind. These will be taken at UCL, and offer a visual resource for the artists, alongside the noise of the machine itself.

Brainwaves will also include a series of talks between musicians and scientists on the topics of harmony, group, composition and frquencies.

If you'd like to attend, then you'll need to get yourself down to Aldeburgh's Hoffmann Building in Snape Maltings, Suffolk at 8pm on 18 September, 2010. Tickets cost £10 and are available from the venue's website.

Duncan Geere @'Wired'

The Secret Histories of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols

♪♫ Johnny Warman - Screaming Jets

Never ever heard this song 'til a couple of minutes ago!

Thanx Stan!

The Insanity Of Music Licensing: In One Single Graphic

The history of music licensing is a messy one, but the short version is that every time some new technology or technological shift has come along in the past century, someone in the industry has freaked out that it was going to mean the end of the world for them, and demanded that "something" must be done. What was often done was to add another layer of licensing, sometimes compulsory, sometimes blanket licenses, sometimes something else. Basically, every time the market shifted, copyright law was effectively patched with changes more or less duct taped on to existing law. Over time, this has just gotten messier and messier -- especially as some of these rights "overlapped." Is an internet stream of a music file a performance or a broadcast? If someone bought the file, do they still need to pay for a performance right? And that's just a few of the very initial questions.

One company that has launched a music service recently passed around a graphic illustration of the insanity involved in licensing music for any sort of online music service:

What you see there is basically the result of a century or so of "bolting on" new licenses due to changes in the market, rather than any concerted effort to look at whether or not the underlying laws or licenses make sense. It's the result of massive regulatory capture, as industries unwilling to change just run to the gov't and demand to be compensated even as their old business models are going away. At what point do people say it's time to scrap this mess and start from scratch?

@'techdirt'

Government Uses Social Networking Sites for More than Investigations

In the midst of recent controversies over Facebook’s privacy settings, it’s easy to forget how much personal information is available from other sources on the Internet. But the government remembers. EFF recently received a number of documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) highlighting the government’s ability to scour not only social networks, but record each and every corner of the Internet. These documents were released in the second of a series of government disclosures resulting from EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in which EFF, with the help of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Clinic, sought information on the procedures and guidelines employed by government agencies when conducting social network monitoring or investigations. As an example of the government’s substantial information collection capability, several documents [PDF] in the CIA’s disclosure discuss the CIA’s so-called Open Source Center, established in 2005, which has been collecting information from publicly accessible Internet sources such as blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites, in addition to monitoring radio and television programs. The Open Source Center’s website, opensource.gov, bills itself as the “US Government's premier provider of foreign open source intelligence.” It is accessible to almost 15,000 local, state, and federal government employees and offers products ranging from reports and analysis on publicly available information dating back to the mid-90s, video reports and internet clips, translations, and media mapping and hot spot analysis.

In the other document [PDF] included in this release, FBI emails reveal the FBI’s interest in the University of Arizona’s Dark Web Project, an attempt by computer scientists to “systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.” Information in the document describes the Dark Web Project as especially effective in employing spiders to search Internet forums and find hidden web sites in the “corners of the Internet.” In addition to being able to search the Internet for content, the Dark Web Project is developing a tool called Writeprint that claims to help identify the creators of anonymous online content. The FBI emails reveal an interest in applying the Dark Web Project’s tools to the FBI’s own “operational analysis and exploitation of data, including web forums.”

As EFF and the Samuelson Clinic continue to seek information about law enforcement investigation techniques used on the Internet, we hope to learn more about how the government uses this information and especially how long it plans to keep it. In the meantime, however, it is clear that government investigators are collecting a wealth of information though the Internet in general and outside of the law enforcement context. It is also a good reminder that while social networks and other websites have privacy settings, the Internet does not. Stay tuned here for the next release.

Tim Wayne @'EFF'

Shamantis - J.Biebz (U Smile 800% slower)

Brilliant!!!
Update:
A hoax?

More Porn For The Blind

What computers have shown us about the mind

The Invisibles: Filmmakers give voice to brutalized migrants

The women and children are raped. They are kidnapped. Those who can not remember the names of their relatives in the United States with money, have the tips of their tongues cut off. Those who can not pay the kidnappers are tortured, chopped into pieces and their bodies burned in boiling pots of diesel oil. Some are still alive when they are thrown in.
The Mexican government knows this, but does nothing to stop it.
These are the “Invisibles.”
These are the stories of migrants traveling on foot from southern Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. They are traveling north through Mexico, risking their lives to help their families.
Their stories are told in “The Invisibles,” which premiered on the campus of the University of Arizona on Sunday afternoon.

With striking cinematography, and powerful stories, this is the reality of the death walk. The filmmakers execute the four short films in perfect style, weaving stories of struggle and tragedy, while revealing the face of humanity.
A 17-year-old tells of her family being robbed. Then she was raped. More than half of the women migrants are raped. A man in a hospital bed tells of being thrown from a train. Along the train route, kidnappers hide waiting to kidnap the migrants.
Why? As one young mother put it: There is no work at home and everything is expensive. When her children needed school supplies and she could not buy them, she made the decision to travel on foot from Central America, risking all for a job in the US.
Filmmaker Marc Silver answered questions about the film after Sunday afternoon’s screening. Silver described his early interest in resistance efforts, which led to the profound truth of the deaths of migrants in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. Amnesty International learned of the project and is now sponsoring the effort to bring about education.
When asked if migrants were reluctant to tell their story, Silver said that they were glad to have an opportunity to tell their stories, to share the horror of the abuse they had suffered in Mexico.
The four-part “The Invisibles,” is co-directed by Silver and actor Gael Garcia Bernal, star of “The Motorcycle Diaries.” The four segments are part of a feature length film now being filmed which will include the story of migrants dying in the Sonoran Desert.

Silver said he was pleased with the cooperation he has received in southern Arizona. “No one wants to see more people die in the desert.”
When asked what could be done, Silver recommended helping Tucson-based humanitarian aid organizations, including No More Deaths, the Samaritans and those who put out water for migrants at Humane Borders.
But Silver said what is needed is systematic change, change that encompasses trade and economic changes.
The Spanish language four-part series, “The Invisibles,” with English subtitles, will be shown on Mexico television to bring awareness to the abuse and torture of migrants ongoing in Mexico.

Silver said telling these stories has been empowering to the migrants who suffer abuse. It is also empowering to those who hear their stories, stories of resilience and courage.
Silver said there are also acts of kindness by those who try and make a difference, like the volunteers in migrant shelters, who are also targeted with abuse for helping migrants.

Then, there are village women who throw bags of oranges or tortillas to those migrants riding on top of trains.

Brenda Norrell @'Censored News'